Tombstones were a lot more fun prior to the nineteenth century. Many of them contained epitaphs in addition to dates and names. For example:Here lies my poor wife, much lamented,She is happy and I am

Editor's Note: This article was written by James Quinn, a senior director of strategic planning for a major university. James has held high-level financial positions with a retailer

One a night, almost every night, for six months. This is the pattern Berlin police have been following since the spring in a bizarre series of arsonist attacks on area luxury vehicles, particularly M

Editor's Note: James Quinn is Senior Director of Strategic Planning at a respected University.When plans to save the financial world are slapped together every other weekend,

The Holy Grail de jour of financial market prognostication is predicting the bottom in housing. It's a fool's errand, however. Investing based on a perceived end to declining property values has&

According to Bloomberg, the New York Times Company (NYT) said today that advertising revenue at its newspapers and Web sites fell 13% in May. It was the biggest monthly decline this year for the third

To drill or not to drill? What's good for offshore drillers such as Transocean (RIG), Noble Corporation (NE) and ENSCO (ESV) isn't necessarily good for consumers. Even a major oil discovery off the co

South Africa’s electricity provider, Eskom, was given permission to raise prices another 13.3 percent (starting in July) after already being given permission to raise prices 14.2 percent, for a

Social networking is moving from infancy to adolescence, as the market landscape evolves and competing business models vie for superiority.Venture capitalists are betting LinkedIn can thrive in an inc

Hello from New York where, whatever "life-related" challenges I might be presented with today, at least I'm not FedEx (FDX). In addition to FDX's much publicized earnings warning this mornin